Security - Security Concepts

Security Concepts

Certain concepts recur throughout different fields of security:

  • Assurance - assurance is the level of guarantee that a security system will behave as expected
  • Countermeasure - a countermeasure is a way to stop a threat from triggering a risk event
  • Defense in depth - never rely on one single security measure alone
  • Exploit - a vulnerability that has been triggered by a threat - a risk of 1.0 (100%)
  • Risk - a risk is a possible event which could cause a loss
  • Threat - a threat is a method of triggering a risk event that is dangerous
  • Vulnerability - a weakness in a target that can potentially be exploited by a security threat

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